John Walsh: John Trumbull’s “Battle of Bunker Hill”

The Department of Art and Art History welcomed distinguished art historian John Walsh, Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum and Adjunct Professor of Art History at Yale University to discuss John Trumbull’s painting “Battle of Bunker Hill.”

Prof. Philip Walsh discussed various translations of Sappho and the challenges of translating ancient Greek poetry, as a complement to the previous “What’s Found in Translation” readings at the Literary House by Dick Davis and...